Common Ground Research Networks

Articles must follow the Chicago Manual of Style and use the Author Date format.

Basics

Reference List:

• Entries should be in title case, meaning that each word (other than short prepositions, conjunctions, and articles) should begin with an uppercase/capital letter.
• Use full first names of authors where possible.
• Second and subsequent authors should be in Firstname Lastname order.
• Publication dates should not be in parentheses.
• Please use the CMS parenthetical method for journal article entries: Journal Name 82 (4): 17–28.

• Entries for journal articles should include a DOI, beginning with https://doi.org/10...
• Entries for web articles should include the name of the website, month and day that the article was published, and a URL.
• Location/city of publisher no longer needed in book references (new to CMS 18).
• For entries with more than six authors, use only the first three in the reference followed by et al. (new to CMS 18).
• Material accessed via the web with no stable date clearly marked on the website should list n.d. (for no date) in place of the year of publication and should include an accessed date.
• Entries for non-English titles need to supply an English translation in square brackets following the title of the work.

In-text Citations:

• Use the word “and” rather than the ampersand (&).
• There should be no comma before the year of publication.
• Citations with more than two authors should use the first author’s last name followed by et al. (new to CMS 18).
• For multiple citations within the same parentheses, please use a semicolon to separate.
• Include a page number only when citing a direct quotation.

Examples of Common Reference Types and Citations

Book:

Smith, John S., and Jane W. Porter. 2023. The Guide to Publishing, 3rd ed. New Publishing Co.

(Smith and Porter 2023)

Smith, John S., Jane W. Porter, and Bob Croft. 2020. The New Guide to Publishing. University of Illinois Press.

(Smith et al. 2020)

Porter, Jane W., John S. Smith, Bob Croft, et al. 2022. The Art of Publishing. Routledge.

(Porter et al. 2022)

Non-English title:

Santos, Juan. 2016. La guía para publicar [The Guide to Publishing]. Grupo Planeta.

(Santos 2016)

Chapter of an Edited Book:

Painter, Mark. 2021. “A Topic of Interest to Artists.” In The Guide to Art, edited by F. J. Jones and Mary Holden. University of Chicago Press.

(Painter 2021)

Journal Article:

Cope, William, and Mary Kalantzis. 2023. “On Cyber-Social Meaning: The Clause, Revised.” International Journal of Communication and Linguistic Studies 21 (2): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.18848/2327-7882/CGP/v21i02/1-18.

(Cope and Kalantzis 2023)

Smith, John S., Jane W. Porter, and David Jones. 2022. “The Guide to Publishing.” Journal of Publishing 4 (2): 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1000/713688787.

(Smith et al. 2022)

Non-English title:

Santos, Juan, and Maria Garcia. 2018. “El arte de publicar artículos académicos” [The Art of Publishing Scholarly Articles]. Revista de publicaciones 3 (3): 1–24.

(Santos and Garcia 2018)

Web Article:

With author(s):

Smith, John S., Jane W. Porter, David Jones, and Ann Kim. 2022. “A Guide to Publishing Academic Articles.” Publishing Times, August 12. https://www.publishingtimes.com/2022/08/12/guidetoacademicpublishing/.

(Smith et al. 2022)

Without author:

Publishing Times. 2021. “A Guide to Publishing Online.” May 14. https://www.publishingtimes/2021/05/14/guidetopublishingonline/.

(Publishing Times 2021)

Without date:

Porter, Mary. n.d. “Updates on Publishing.” Academic Resources. Accessed August 20, 2023. https://www.academicresources/updates/.

(Porter, n.d.)

Thesis or Dissertation:

Smith, John S. 2019. “Research into Publishing Studies.” PhD diss., University of Illinois. ProQuest (12345678).

(Smith 2019)

Other Types of References:

Use the link at the top of the page to see CMS examples for different types of works being referenced/cited (e.g., non-English works, video content, personal communication, social media content, etc.).

• Articles should be formatted according to the journal article template.
• Formatted manuscripts should be “clean” with no tracked changes or comments.
• The formatted version should include all author information as per the template.
• AI Acknowledgment, Informed Consent, and Conflict of Interest sections need to be included, as per the template.
• Section headers and subsection headers should be in title case.
• Articles should follow US national spelling and word usage.
• Tables in landscape mode are NOT accepted. Pages must always be in portrait layout.
• Images should be inserted within the article document as jpg files with an image resolution at or below 300 DPI.
• Images embedded using complex features such as "Drawing Objects" are not acceptable. Please provide “static” images.
• Use of referencing/citation software/tools is not acceptable